日本证监机构的软弱是出了名的，不过奥林巴斯的股东们——包括公司某些最大的股东，都已经开始向公司发难。
Japan's securities regulators are notoriously toothless, but shareholders — including those with the largest stakes in Olympus - are starting to speak up.
一些奥林巴斯的大股东，包括拥有其8%股份的日本生命保险公司，要求其做出更多的信息披露。
Some of Olympus’s largest shareholders, including Nippon Life, which holds 8%, have demanded more disclosure.
“这就是现代的日本企业的公投，”迈克尔•伍德福德（Michael Woodford），一个被日本相机制造商奥林巴斯踢出高层的英国佬愤愤不平地说道。
“THIS is a referendum on modern-day corporate Japan,” fumes Michael Woodford, a Brit cast down from the heights of Olympus, a Japanese camera maker.
然而日本本部并不需要听从英国方面意见，同意了奥林巴斯集团收购Gyrus这笔交易，忽视了其中相当惹眼的财务问题。
However their Japan offices, though not required to follow the British decision, approved the Olympus group accounts without knowing the answer to this rather glaring conundrum.
奥林巴斯这些异乎寻常的交易最先在这个夏天被一家小型调研杂志Facta报道，但却被日本主流媒体忽视了。
Olympus's odd transactions were first reported this summer by a small investigative magazine called Facta, but ignored by the mainstream Japanese press.
当被问及奥林巴斯的财务顾问是否与“反社会势力”(对日本黑帮“极道”的委婉称谓)有染时，高山回答到：“根本就没有这么回事！”
Mr Takayama was asked whether any of Olympus's financial advisers had ties to "anti-social forces", a euphemism for the yakuza (Japanese Mafia). He replied: "I don't acknowledge that at all."
伍德福德的说法和充满敌意的奥林巴斯新闻发布会让我们看到了一个少见的例子：日本通常封闭的、遵从少数服从多数原则的公司文化中存在的冲突暴露在公众眼前。
Woodford's account and the hostile Olympus news conference provide a rare example of conflict spilling into the open in Japan's typically closed and consensus-driven corporate culture .
“这就是现代的日本企业的公投，”迈克尔·伍德福德(Michael Woodford)，一个被日本相机制造商奥林巴斯踢出高层的英国佬愤愤不平地说道。
"THIS is a referendum on modern-day corporate Japan," fumes Michael Woodford, a Brit cast down from the heights of Olympus, a Japanese camera maker.
近年频发的日本企业治理丑闻，尤其是奥林巴斯的账务乱象，使得人们有理由相信，瓦格纳的预言仍具有现实意义。
In recent years, the Japanese enterprise management frequent scandal, especially Olympus billing disarray, and makes people have reason to believe, Wagner's prophecy is still have realistic meanings.
日本成像设备生产商奥林巴斯OlympusCorp。的英籍总裁兼首席执行长伍德福德Michael c。
Michael C. Woodford said that last Wednesday, as President and chief executive of Japan's Olympus Corp.
日本成像设备生产商奥林巴斯OlympusCorp。的英籍总裁兼首席执行长伍德福德Michael c。
Michael C. Woodford said that last Wednesday, as President and chief executive of Japan's Olympus Corp.
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